YouTube Reverses Misinformation Policy, Cites Political Balance by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 2, 2023 YouTube has reversed a decision it made three years ago to ban videos claiming former President Trump won the U.S. presidential election in 2020. The company on Friday announced it will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, … Continue reading YouTube Reverses Misinformation Policy, Cites Political Balance
YouTube Reverses Misinformation Policy, Cites Political Balance by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 2, 2023 YouTube has reversed a decision it made three years ago to ban videos claiming former President Trump won the U.S. presidential election in 2020. The company on Friday announced it will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, … Continue reading YouTube Reverses 2020 Misinformation Policy In U.S., Citing Political Balance
Twitter has stopped enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policy Jon Fingas| @jonfingas Twitter’s long-running effort to fight COVID-19 misinformation is at an end, at least for now. As Twitter users and CNN noticed, the social media firm has quietly updated its transparency site to reveal that it stopped enforcing its COVID misinformation policy on … Continue reading Twitter has stopped enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policy
By Cristian Apetrei August 29, 2022 Since health officials confirmed the first COVID-19 cases, misinformation has spread just as quickly as the virus. Social media may have made the amount, variety, and speed of misinformation seem unprecedented, but COVID-19 isn’t the first pandemic where false and harmful information has set back public health. Misinformation altered how people trusted … Continue reading Misinformation played a deadly role in both the COVID and HIV/AIDS pandemics
Whistleblower accuses Twitter of being ‘grossly negligent’ towards security The former Twitter head of security also says Twitter prioritizes user growth over reducing spam. M. Moon @mariella_moon Dado Ruvic / reuters Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, says the company has misled regulators about its security measures in his whistleblower complaint that … Continue reading Twitter merges misinformation and spam teams following whistleblower claims
Bob Hutchins August 24, 2021 Bias has a well-documented effect on reasoning. Bias can affect the processing of information and lead to beliefs that are incongruent with evidence and rational consideration. Bias is therefore expected to influence an individual’s susceptibility to misinformation online. For instance, if you absolutely (the bias) believe the earth is flat … Continue reading Does Personal Bias Make People Vulnerable to Misinformation on Social Media Platforms?
Bots Take On Human Behavior, As Google, Facebook Work To Stop Misinformation by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 3, 2020 Data released this week found that 58.1% of bots identified in February could mimic human behavior, meaning that they can disguise their identity and create fake accounts on social media sites to post propaganda … Continue reading Bots Take On Human Behavior, As Google, Facebook Work To Stop Misinformation
